Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 112

What will be our future condition if he should beget other suns?”

Who acts: Sun · What happens: be, beget · To what, where: future condition, other suns

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 condition	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 condition	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 condition	cop
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 condition	nmod:poss
5	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 condition	amod
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 beget	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beget	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 beget	aux
10	beget	beget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 condition	acl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 suns	amod
12	suns	sun	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beget	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 condition	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future		our future condition					tree rules
2	beget a condition, not said to happen	should	Sun	other suns					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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